using wifi to get images on laptop?

rosycreates

New member
Hi All!

Is there a way to get my images from the d5300 to my laptop using the WiFi function? Or, is it only for transferring photos to my phone?

Thanks again!


 

Fred Kingston

Senior Member
Well... Let's see... Are you using Apple's ecosystem... i.e. iPhone????

If you are, then it appears the Wireless Mobility App dumps the photos into iPhone's Photo app and Camera Roll... If you enable Apple's iCloud ecosystem, there are settings on your iPhone to transfer images as they appear, to your iCloud... YOUR icloud acct. is shared across your laptop, desktop, etc... So in effect, you take a picture, it gets dumped to your iPhone, and then from there it gets transferred to your icloud... which is shared by your laptop, etc... it make take a few minutes for all that to happen, but it does happen...
 

BeegRhob

Senior Member
I tried to transfer files from the camera using wifi to no avail! I have an MSI laptop with Widows 10 and the 5300 has 1.03 firmware I think. It was the latest I could get a month ago. I could only "connect" to the 5300, but the camera didn't acknowledge it. I used Nikon transfer, also tried to set up a wifi hotspot and I didn't get anywhere. Of course, I did not read the directions, so there may be the right way! lol. Others may know, hopefully! Why don't you just put the sd card into the computer? I have forgotten to put my cards back in a camera a time or two, so I understand if that is why. I could put a fresh card in right when I pull the other one from the camera. Let us know what kind of computer and operating system that you have, that may be helpful! I am going to take a shot in the dark and say that Win 7, Vista, and possibly even 8 won't work, but who knows. There may be a program that will do it, possibly photoshop, which I don't have.

Rob
 

Fred Kingston

Senior Member
I understand that. She hasn't said what she has tried... or what kind of laptop OS she's using... The only info she's related is it's a D5300 and she has an android phone.
 

nickt

Senior Member
The scenario Fred described in post #2 can also work with an android phone and Google Photos. Camera to phone, then google photos app uploads to your google account and then they are available from any of your devices that are logged into you google account. There is a setting somewhere in the app for google to back up full quality which goes against your quota or unlimited storage if you let them reduce the images.
 

rosycreates

New member
Sorry...been a little busy..

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad with Windows 10 and a Samsung note 5 with android 7.0. It's old, but I really like it.

I so far found that the transfer to my Samsung, upload to Google photos, then download the photo I want to my laptop seems to be the only way.

I was hoping for a better solution.
 
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rosycreates

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Thanks, but I dont want to tether. I'm trying to find away to use the wifi to transfer to pc. However, it doesnt look like that is possible.
 
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